UPDATE: Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations (3/7/07; MLA '07)

The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is seeking proposals for papersfor the 2007 Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago on December27-30.

Session 1W.H. Auden and Music. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Lyricainvites submissions on Auden as lyricist and librettist, and on composerswho set his texts. Both formal and historical approaches are welcome.

Session 2Prima la musica, poi le parole. Which is more important, words or music?Papers may focus on either or both sides of this age-old aestheticargument, in any historical period or geographical context.

Send proposals to DrJSDailey_at_aol.com by March 7th. Questions may beaddressed to the same e mail address.